oboe
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe (plural oboes)
- (music) A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]wind instrument
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[edit]Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe
Declension
[edit]Inflection of oboe (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | oboe | oboet | |
genitive | oboen | oboeiden oboeitten | |
partitive | oboeta | oboeita | |
illative | oboeen | oboeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | oboe | oboet | |
accusative | nom. | oboe | oboet |
gen. | oboen | ||
genitive | oboen | oboeiden oboeitten | |
partitive | oboeta | oboeita | |
inessive | oboessa | oboeissa | |
elative | oboesta | oboeista | |
illative | oboeen | oboeihin | |
adessive | oboella | oboeilla | |
ablative | oboelta | oboeilta | |
allative | oboelle | oboeille | |
essive | oboena | oboeina | |
translative | oboeksi | oboeiksi | |
abessive | oboetta | oboeitta | |
instructive | — | oboein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Further reading
[edit]- “oboe”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French hautbois, transcribed phonetically.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe m (plural oboi)
- (music) oboe
- (metonymically) oboist
Further reading
[edit]- oboe in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French hautbois.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]oboe m (plural oboes)
References
[edit]- ^ “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Further reading
[edit]- “oboe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]IPA(key): /ʊˈboː/, IPA(key): /ˈoːbʊ.ə/, IPA(key): /ˈoːbʊˌɛ/
Noun
[edit]oboe c
Declension
[edit]Declension of oboe
Related terms
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- English terms derived from Italian
- English terms derived from French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/əʊbəʊ
- Rhymes:English/əʊbəʊ/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Woodwind instruments
- English calculator words
- Finnish terms borrowed from Italian
- Finnish terms derived from Italian
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/oboe
- Rhymes:Finnish/oboe/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- fi:Musical instruments
- Finnish valtio-type nominals
- Italian terms derived from French
- Italian 3-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔboe
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔboe/3 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Musical instruments
- Italian metonyms
- it:Woodwind instruments
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oe
- Rhymes:Spanish/oe/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Musical instruments
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns
- sv:Musical instruments